- Venue
- The Second Act Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Ends
- Saturday, July 13, 2024
- Address
- 29 Sunbury Workshops, Swanfield St, London, E2 7LF
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- The Second Act
In the first of a series of duo shows at The Second Act, Florian Houlker’s renditions of the Accrington brick establish the foundation of a selection of works dedicated to emblems of early and post-industrial devices.
Both artists elevate common objects, often with a playfulness that unlocks the value they hold as both storytelling devices; or metaphors for our social or emotional states.
Florian Houlker is a multidisciplinary artist who emits a strong working-class narrative through their art. They aim to use traditional skills to identify themselves with craft and identity; often recycling objects reclaimed from the landscape, to reconstruct narratives from the post-industrial environment. This includes themes of memory, nostalgia, fractures, decline, loss and abandonment. Whether it’s a personal, socially observed or lived experience, they seek to construct a visual language through the conversation of materials, through order, forms and repetition.
Sophie Lourdes Knight is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, sculpture and photography. Her practice revolves around the dualities and contradictions of all things, seeds of doubt and unknowing, absurdity and seriousness. Her work attempts to level the playing field, raising the mundane to the exemplary, the lavish down to the devalued, a commentary of the inherent biases and assumptions we give to objects and the values we place on them. They transcend their physical limitations and rise to become akin to religious idols or spiritual totems.
Dates
Preview 13th June, 18:30 – 20:30
Open 14th June – 13th July , 11:00 – 16:00
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday OR by Appointment made via 07584825281
The Second Act, 29 Sunbury Workshops, Swanfield St, London, E2 7LF
